Abstract

LOURO BERNAL, Isabel. La familia en la determinación de la salud. Rev Cubana Salud Pública [online]. 2003, vol.29, n.1, pp. 48-51. ISSN 1561-3127.

Family health is one of objectives of the strategy of Primary Health Care in Cuba. The conceptual, methodological and practical development of this sphere of knwledge is an interest of the Cuban health system. A theoretical work was done to describe different explicative models of health determination, which considers the family as part of the reference schemes. It is shown that the family belongs to the social mesostructure and that it fulfills an important role as an intermediate instance between the factors of macrosocial character and the individual ones. The basic material and spiritual needs are satisfied in the family to foster and maintain health and well-being. Under its influences, you learn the healthy behaviors and the mechanisms protecting and regulating the functions related to the disease, its sequelae and death are produced. The family-health relationship is proved in the results of Cuban researches

Keywords : PRIMARY HEALTH CARE [methods]; MEDICINE, FAMILY; CUBA.

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